Animated Halloween Cake

Create an animated Halloween cake using fondant, motors, cardboard, wire, toys, clay, Styrofoam, glue, paper, metal, lights you name it. This one we made for our daughters 2nd birthday since it is close to Halloween.

There are so many Halloween ideas out there. I made the mistake of looking online to see what people make for their Halloween decorations. Wow, so many great ideas out there. Took me a week of reading about other projects to finally give up and go back to our cake.

Video straight to the final product:

Step 1: Planning

Be sure the attempt to sketch out what you want in the end. I find this most helpful to find flaws in my own plans and also easier to explain to anyone who volunteers to help me.

Comments

[The Papier Boy]

wow. just, wow.

[pduff brown]

This is truly amazing!! A real work of art! Thanks for sharing!

[smwarnke4]

This is by far THE best cake I've EVER seen!!! I'm very impressed to say the least.

[chickenbrain2009]

BRILLIANT! Its amazing!What a talent. Was it just you who did or or did you get help?

[DaPope]

5 Stars!!! That is incredible!!!

[ThatInstructablesGuy]

I guess the cake is not a lie.

Great instructable!

[Nannuu]

I have no idea what this means but I'll take the compliment anyway. Thanks.

[bmlbytes]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the+cake+is+a+lie
Hope that helps

[Nannuu]

Oh man, I played through Portal and don't even remember that. Thanks, now I'll know next time.

[xtremd]

This was a triumph....
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.


srrsly awesome instructable!

(Those were the first two lines to the end credit song "still alive" in Portal)

[tzq33tdq]

can you please put a video on here? just so i can see what it does and how it looks. I might make so i want to know how it will look like. you don't need to put a photo up. and will it work if i move some of it around?
Thank you, tzq33tdq.

[mary candy]

veryyyyyyyyyyy crazyyyyyyyyyy
I l-o-v-e-d it.

[deafman214]

EPIC...

[fireman115]

Wow i thought those kids in 4H did a good job... this is great

[stringstretcher]

This is very special! I have never seen an animated cake, although my dad animated just about everything in sight! Nice work!

[musichic19]

I would love to do this for my nephews 1st b-day he was born on halloween and they are throwing a huge halloween party but the cake hasn't been decided...this looks amazing and I am planning this with a friend. When did you start on the cake?? the same day as the party?

[Nannuu]

We started 3 weeks prior with mechanics and such. All of the edible stuff, cake, fondant etc we did the night before the party.

[musichic19]

thank you!!! =D I hope it comes out just the same

[Kulawend]

Awesome :] My birthday is near Halloween too. But I think I'll just buy a cake at the store.

[pjjt1009]

it would be very helpfull if you take a pic of the mechanism of the spider because its awesome how it does the jump, hope you could do it

[reggierhy]

Wow that is the coolest cake i have ever seen! You gotta love American ingenuity. Thanks for this most awesome instructable, fun to look at but there is no way a mere mortal could aspire!

[jellyfishattack]

The flying crank ghost blew me away. It's absolutely amazing.

[carterburwell]

same here! I mean HOLY FISH POO!!!! THAT THING IS AWESOME!!!!!!

[Nannuu]

Thanks! That was my favorite part of the whole thing.

[necropolian]

this, is absolutely, too perfected, to ever, ever eat. it would be such a great loss... this is unbelieveable! 5*!!!!!!!!!!!!! ps: hope it tastes good :)

[Grey_Wolfe]

Ahhh, but did it get eaten when all was said and done?

[Nannuu]

Oh yeah, no cake gets wasted here!

[Instructabuilder]

what was that thing moving back and forth in the green light inside the purple roofed house?

[Nannuu]

That is a ghost. Pepper's ghost to be more specific.

[1mommyof3babies]

Amazing Cake. And great instructions!

[phapboy]

this is a cake!. holy crap!

[tinkernaut]

Nice!!! Any (cheap) sources for the motors?

[Nannuu]

Yes, I typically use one of the below. They have great prices but not so great shipping prices so it's best to buy a good chunk from them to lower the shipping per piece. Ha, that's the excuse I tell my wife anyway. I had to get more baby, I swear it's cheaper that way...

http://www.allelectronics.com/

http://www.surpluscenter.com/

[tinkernaut]

Aaahhh, yes. Good old All Electronics. Why didn't I think of them? Do I smell the potential for a good instructable here? "How to get all the tinker toys you want and still save your marriage." :-D

[Psyoon]

wow, i dont even want to ask how long you put into that. it was amazing. Looks like our halloween village on steroids and on a chocolatey spongey goodness that is cake

[Shifrin]

This is so Creative, to bad your daughter iis too young to appreciate it! Nice Job, Great Instructable! Favorited and +1

[Cartuner55]

if i were you, i would of waited until she was a bit older. anyway, great idea. you obviously are a crafty person(i am not :D ). Cheers!

[rjtodd13]

Wow!! Congratulations! Your daughter is one lucky girl!

[nanonano58]

nicest cake i ever seen

[Kiteman]

The kids are actually Polly Pockets with their legs cut off to shorten them.

How gruesomely appropriate!

...cake using fondant, motors, cardboard, wire, toys, clay, Styrofoam, glue, paper, metal, lights...

I hope it tasted better than this sounds!

This is a truly awesome (and that is not a word I use very often, being neither Californian nor an under-age surfer) creation. I still can't get used to the amount of work Americans put into Hallowe'en.

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